Is there an (easy) way to convert a shared bzr repository?

[termie]

Is there an (easy) way to convert a shared bzr repository?

[termie]

hmm, interesting, how would you get it with bzr?

[vasild]

Good question, I do not know :) Maybe with cp(1) ? ;-)

Using solely a bzr - cloning a new branch takes about 40 seconds because the branches have lots of common history which is already in the new .bzr shared dir. But importing a new branch into git using "git bzr import" always takes approximately 150 minutes.

[termie]

i was using a shared repo before, i can try it out again with some tests to see if i can speed up the tons of branches case. If you figure out how somebody usually would clone a "repository" rather than a branch in bzr let me know.

[vasild]

Hi,

There is a shared repo in .git/bzr/repo and fetching a new branch from the orig shared repo in there is fast, I think that the slow operation is the export that bzr is doing.

Thank you!

[termie]

we may be able to re-use the initial export marks to speed up bzr's export, i'll run some tests this weekend

[electrofelix]

Are there any issues in not reusing mark files for branches from the same repository? From reading the documentation on the fastimport plugins it sounds like it's recommended to use separate marks files, but it's not clear if this is correctness or performance?